【趴下！快趴下！地震來臨時如何跟外國朋友提醒「地震口訣」？】#實用英文

地震來時的口訣「趴下、掩護、穩住」英文就是drop、cover、 hold on。我們先來看drop的意思，drop原本當動詞有就有「使下降」的意思。

在口訣中代表叫大家遇到地震時，第一動作先把身體放低，靠近地板，我們來看個例句：

#英文 #地震 #語言學習 HOPE English 希平方學英文

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#flu #influenza #流感

🤧 Colds and Flus

最近天氣忽冷忽熱，除了小心新冠病毒，也要注意流感呦 💪

The common cold, usually just called the cold, is an infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that mostly affects the nose, throat and sinuses. Typical symptoms include coughing, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, and sneezing. Many different strains of viruses cause the cold, but rhinoviruses are the most common. The cold can also be caused by coronaviruses—the same family of viruses responsible for Wuhan pneumonia, SARS and MERS.
一般感冒，我們通常簡稱感冒，是一種上呼吸道感染疾病，最常影響鼻子、喉嚨與鼻竇。典型的症狀包含咳嗽、喉嚨痛、流鼻水、鼻塞與打噴嚏。許多種病毒都會導致感冒，不過鼻病毒是最常見的一種。冠狀病毒也會導致感冒，這一類的病毒也會引起武漢肺炎、SARS跟MERS。

And then there’s the flu, which is short for influenza. The flu is caused by the influenza virus, a family of viruses that also includes H1N1—the virus responsible for both the Spanish flu (which killed around 50 million people!) and the swine flu. The flu produces the same symptoms as the cold, plus high fever, chills, headaches and muscle and joint pain. While colds usually don’t result in serious health problems, the flu can cause complications like pneumonia and bacterial infections.
另外還有流感，英文字是influenza，常縮寫成flu。流感是由流感病毒引起，和H1N1病毒屬於同一科，而H1N1正是之前造成西班牙大流感（造成五千萬人喪命！）與豬流感的元兇。基本上，流感症狀跟感冒症狀是一樣的，還會伴隨高燒、發寒、頭痛、肌肉關節疼痛。雖然感冒不太會導致嚴重的健康問題，流感則可能引發肺炎與細菌傳染等併發症。

When talking about colds and flus, we can use the verbs “have” and “catch.” Ex: Don’t come too close to me—I have a cold. I caught the flu last week and missed two days of work. We can also use the phrase “come down with.” Ex: I think I’m coming down with the flu. Brian came down with a cold and stayed home all weekend. And sometimes a cold or flu is referred to colloquially as a “bug.” Ex: My throat feels scratchy—I think I may have caught a bug.
談到感冒或流感，我們通常會用動詞have跟catch來表達，如Don’t come too close to me—I have a cold.（別靠近我，我感冒了。）或是I caught the flu last week and missed two days of work.（我上個禮拜得了流感，請了兩天假。）也可以用片語come down with表達，如：I think I’m coming down with the flu. （我猜我得流感了。）或：Brian came down with a cold and stayed home all weekend.（布萊恩感冒了，整個週末都待在家。）有時候我們也可以用口語一點的bug來指感冒或流感。如：My throat feels scratchy—I think I may have caught a bug.（我的喉嚨癢癢的，我猜我可能感冒了。）

【✍主題單字】
1. symptom「症狀」
2. stuffy nose「鼻塞」
3. strains of viruses「病毒株」：strain指「種類、類型」
4. complication「併發症」

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#徐薇英文教室
印度一名農夫的農園常受野猴侵擾，他聽父親說猴子怕老虎，因此將拉不拉多犬染上老虎的斑紋並帶著巡農園，猴子果真被嚇跑再也不敢靠近，現在村裡每個人都學他的作法解決了猴患(replicating my father’s idea)。replicate (v.複製)=字首re-(表back)+字根-plic-(表to fold摺)+動詞字尾-ate，把紙摺回來就會形成兩邊一模一樣的形狀，也就是"複製、重現”了。(★complicate使複雜、implicate使牽連，字根-plic-都表to fold摺)
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1【scare me to death 嚇死我了】
不要突然冒出來嚇人，都快被你嚇死了！
Never sneak up on me like that again. You scared me to death!

sneak up 偷偷摸摸靠近

2【scare me stiff 嚇到動彈不得】
我最討厭恐怖片了，每次我都緊張到不敢動
Horror movies are the worst! They scare me stiff.

Stiff 僵硬的；硬邦邦的

3【scare the hell out of me 嚇壞我了】
你的萬聖節服裝把我給嚇壞了
Your costume scares the hell out of me.

costume 扮裝
Halloween costume

4【make my blood run cold 背脊一陣涼】
三更半夜，突然有人敲她的房門，她嚇到背脊一陣涼
She heard someone knocking in the middle of the night. It made her blood run cold.

make something 原形動詞

5【My heart misses a beat 心跳漏了一拍】
我看到那場爆炸時，嚇得心跳都漏了一拍
When I saw the blast, my heart misses a beat.

blast 爆炸
注意 es
驚嚇、興奮（喜歡的人）

簡單複習
1 scare me to death
2 scare me stiff
3 scare the hell out of me
4 make my blood run cold
5 My heart misses a beat

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1 【alert 警報】— 名詞
The free app will issue an alert 30 minutes before rain.

2 【abolish 廢除】— 動詞
Cyprus has announced a controversial passport scheme will be abolished.

影片中口誤說成希臘，應該是塞普勒斯 Cyprus 喔（位在地中海靠近中東一帶）

3 【lethal 致命的】— 形容詞
Belarus allows the police to use lethal weapons against protestors.

4 【the Holocaust 納粹大屠殺】— 名詞
Facebook has explicitly banned Holocaust denial content.

5 【seedling 幼苗】— 名詞
Three million seedlings will be planted over the next few years.

簡單複習：
1）alert 警報
2）abolish 廢除
3）lethal 致命的
4） Holocaust 納粹大屠殺
5）seedling 幼苗